November 2008
Bruce Croft at CIKM 2008 →
Search guru Bruce Croft gave a keynote talk at CIKM 2008 titled “Unsolved Problems in Search (and how we might approach them)”. The talk started with a bit of a pat on the back for those working…
October 2008
My iPod thinks I'm Emo →
They’ve updated the list of accepted talks/panels for SXSW 2009 and despite being very, very late, my submission “I’m So Sad, My iPod Thinks I’m Emo” was accepted. I feel a little like…
A no free lunch theorem for database indexes? →
As a trained mathematician, I like to pull back and ask what are the fundamental limitations I face.
A common misconception in our Google-era is that database performance is a technical matter…
Try to not YAWN! →
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Yawning is a fascinating human social phenomenon! Try to not yawn! And, if you like, write as a comment if you…
Learning Processing →
I’m learning Processing, a programming language for artists. Extremely cool!
The goal is to build things cooler than the following ones:
Metamorphosis from Glenn…
Try to not YAWN! →
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Yawning is a fascinating human social phenomenon! Try to not yawn! And, if you like, write as a comment if you…
Learning Processing →
I’m learning Processing, a programming language for artists. Extremely cool!
The goal is to build things cooler than the following ones:
Metamorphosis from Glenn…
How I mounted my Web presence as a researcher… →
Suzanne Bowness asked me to answer some questions for a paper she is preparing. I reproduce here the content of the interview. It is mildly incoherent.
When did you first start your web site?…
Try to not YAWN! →
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Yawning is a fascinating human social phenomenon! Try to not yawn! And, if you like, write as a comment if you…
Learning Processing →
I’m learning Processing, a programming language for artists. Extremely cool!
The goal is to build things cooler than the following ones:
Metamorphosis from Glenn…
Try to not YAWN! →
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Yawning is a fascinating human social phenomenon! Try to not yawn! And, if you like, write as a comment if you…
Learning Processing →
I’m learning Processing, a programming language for artists. Extremely cool!
The goal is to build things cooler than the following ones:
Metamorphosis from Glenn…
Matchmine dives into the deadpool →
Recommender startup Matchmine has shut it doors. CEO Mike Troiano says on the Matchmine blog:
Today - more suddenly than anyone would have liked - matchmine came to an end. I got word of the…
Montreal Music and Machine Learning Workshop →
If you live within a day’s drive of Montreal, consider going to the Montreal Music and Machine Learning Workshop. The workshop is being held at the Université de Montréal on November 14 and is…
One year later… the future of mobile looks even... →
One year ago we announced that Nokia was featuring Strands in their “Phones should be open to anything” campaign.
Open to anything. We believe the smartest devices should keep getting smarter….
Bailout, schmailout →
In any loan, the lender demands to know the use of proceeds. It is beginning to appear that we, the people, aren’t getting even that from the use of our money in the bailout.
The Times’ editorial
Freakomendations - Stone Roses →
Here’s a freakomendation from Amazon. If you like the Madchester band Stone Roses you may like marble flowers.
When in doubts, prefer unimpressive negative... →
When you first hear about peer review, you are lead to believe that the purpose of peer review is detect mistakes and improve papers. Then, one day, you submit a beautiful paper presenting a…
Open Parenthesis » Ownership and the Importance of... →
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The Monitor turns off the press →
The Christian Science Monitor is turning off its press and going fully online. I heard about this at my conference on new business models for news last week and said it makes perfect sense. The…
Rakesh Agrawal at CIKM 2008 →
Rakesh Agrawal from Microsoft Research gave a keynote talk yesterday morning at CIKM 2008 on Humane Data Mining. Much of the talk was on the potential of data mining in health care, but I am…
Feed me →
It’s wonderful to see my friends at the Guardian taking the ballsy move to produce full-text RSS feeds. I know this is somewhat nerve-making in media: Why shiould we put all our content out there…
The Racist Recommender →
Halloween is coming, time to find a costume. If you go to Amazon and search for “terrorist costume”, Amazon can’t find anything, but they do suggest that you might try the related search ‘arab…
Guardian column: Past the article →
My Guardian column this week reprises discussion on the blog about moving past the article as the fundamental unit of journalism.
The future of innovation is in software →
I keep reading about how the future will be shaped by new cheaper fuel or amazing new medications. I believe that we are misreading the trends. Yes, we will have better medications and cheaper fuel…
Instant personalized TV entertainment developer,... →
Gravity R&D, developer of an Instant personalized entertainment solution for TV, has been selected by the jury as Winner of the first edition of the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-ups….
Evaluating search result pages →
Yahoo Chief Scientist Jan Pedersen recently wrote a short position paper, “Making Sense of Search Result Pages” (PDF), that has some interesting tidbits in it. Specifically, it advocates for…
Who can make real change in USA? Who is that? →
From AARP.org, viral marketing for society … and a lot of fun as well! ;)
(via Bzaarian Gianandrea)
Who can make real change in USA? Who is that? →
From AARP.org, viral marketing for society … and a lot of fun as well! ;)
(via Bzaarian Gianandrea)
Who can make real change in USA? Who is that? →
From AARP.org, viral marketing for society … and a lot of fun as well! ;)
(via Bzaarian Gianandrea)
Who can make real change in USA? Who is that? →
From AARP.org, viral marketing for society … and a lot of fun as well! ;)
(via Bzaarian Gianandrea)
The internet as a right →
I need to write an essay on a bold goal for the internet for a World Economic Forum (aka Davos) Global Agenda Council on the future of the internet. My thoughts:
The internet is a right.
I can’t…
The problem with unidimensional research →
Yesterday, I listened to some of the BDA’08 talks. One common issue I noticed is that most work is unidimensional. That is, researchers tell us “my technique is 4 times faster”. The trade-off, if…
Cross-site request exploits →
Bill Zeller and Ed Felten have an interesting paper, “Cross-Site Request Forgeries: Exploitation and Prevention” (PDF), that looks at exploiting the implicit authentication in browsers to take…
New Business Models for News Summit today →
We’re holding the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism today. Students will be live-blogging at newsinnovation.com. The amazing Rachel Sterne will be…
A new economy →
At a Newhouse School/New Yorker event yesterday, Gary Hart said that President Obama (presuming) could not rebuild a 20th century economy out of this wreckage but will need to build a 21st century…
Links for 2008 10 22 →
Borrow and Lend Money From Friends and Family With Virgin Money
Virgin enters the business of peer-to-peer lending
(tags: p2p, money, lending, virgin)
With friends like…
Links for 2008 10 22 →
Borrow and Lend Money From Friends and Family With Virgin Money
Virgin enters the business of peer-to-peer lending
(tags: p2p, money, lending, virgin)
With friends like…
Links for 2008 10 22 →
Borrow and Lend Money From Friends and Family With Virgin Money
Virgin enters the business of peer-to-peer lending
(tags: p2p, money, lending, virgin)
With friends like…
Links for 2008 10 22 →
Borrow and Lend Money From Friends and Family With Virgin Money
Virgin enters the business of peer-to-peer lending
(tags: p2p, money, lending, virgin)
With friends like…
A 2008 dot-com crash →
Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall at the Financial Times write that:
A wave of job losses has started to spread across California’s Silicon Valley as the trademark optimism of the region’s…
Strands Social Player wins the BlackBerry... →
Strands Social Player has won today the BlackBerry® Developer Challenge 2008 as the Best Multimedia Application!! The challenge is designed for BlackBerry developers from around the globe that have…
Attacking tagging systems →
A paper at WebKDD 2008, “Exploring the Impact of Profile Injection Attacks in Social Tagging Systems” (PDF), by Maryam Ramezani, JJ Sandvig, Runa Bhaumik, and Bamshad Mobasher claims that social…
SkyMall signs Strands Social Recommender in time... →
Board a domestic flight and check the seat pocket in front of you, chances are you’ll find Strands’ latest client, SkyMall.
Launching in early November, Strands Social Recommender™ will…
SnappRadio FX →
A few years ago, for fun, I wrote a mashup web app called SnappRadio that would select and display images from Flickr related to the music you were listening to (on RadioParadise or Last.fm). My…
The executable Web - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog →
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Digg shifting to personalized news →
In a post by David Sarno at the LA Times, David describes Digg CEO Jay Adelson as using their new $28.7M round of funding to push “a renewed shift in personalizing content for individual users.”
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Going to CIKM 2008 →
I will be attending CIKM 2008 in Napa next week. The conference looks quite interesting, especially the Industry Event with its impressive list of speakers. If you will also be there, please say…
A powerful memorial →
Walking along my hotel’s street in Frankfurt, I came upon one of the most powerful memorials I’ve ever seen. I could have missed it.
On the sidewalk in front of Hebelstrasse 13, I saw…
Books, books, books →
The Frankfurt Book Fair is phenomenal: jammed, absolutely jammed, with German book fans, including an incredible number of kid. The book culture in Germany is nothing like that in America, where…